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CVE-2017-15298

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 1.64% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-10-14 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2017-15298
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
1.64%

Original NVD Description

Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to build the data structure in memory before writing to disk.